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Motown on the Mersey

on BBC Radio 2

Craig Charles celebrates the heyday of Liverpool's Mardi Gras club, which in the 1960s played host to high-calibre black performers such as Ben E King, Al Green , Arthur Conley , Clyde McPhatter and the Chants, and aspiring locals such as the Vocal Perfection (later the Real Thing). The club became the music mecca for a postwar generation of white and black lovers of the Stax sound.
Recalling the glory days of the Mardi Gras are singer
Geno Washington , Eddie and Chris Amoo (of the Real Thing), trumpeter Kenny Ball , journalist
Paul Du Noyer and Tamla Nights comperes Billy Butler and Chris Wharton. Producer James Crawford

Contributors

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Craig Charles
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Al Green
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Arthur Conley
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Clyde McPhatter
Singer:
Geno Washington
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Chris Amoo
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Kenny Ball
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Paul Du Noyer
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Billy Butler
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Chris Wharton.
Producer:
James Crawford

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